Lately I've been using the satellite option in Google Maps to track down aerial photos of castles.

It's a little bit of work, but it's well worth the effort. A lot of websites, like castles-of-britain.com and castlewales.com have instructions for tourists to find the castle. Using Google Maps, you can get to the right vicinity and then switch to satellite view and scroll around until you find it.

In some areas of the world you cannot zoom in all the way, but in other areas you can get a pretty good image.

This is a good way to research castle layouts if you can't find groundplans.

The photos were scattered all over my harddrive and I decided to get organized. Then I decided that maybe I should share, so I made the archive, which will also make it easier for me to find them again.

BTW I was doing research on a prototype to build my own abbey and found a nice small abbey pictured in some books at the library. And there you go having done Valle Crucis already with great source photos and plans!

I guess I will have to modify the layout somewhat to make my own abbey.

Nice work.

Last edited by Tedward on Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.